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asátiikar name of man, Phoebe's cousin
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #620 | revised Sep 26 2014
asátiikar • N • name of man, Phoebe's cousin
Literally: 'rocky hands'
| Derivation: | as tíik-ar |
| rock hand-INST |
Source: JPH ethno ?:130
Note: Also given as asatíkaan. So called because as a boy he was always throwing rocks.
See as 'rock' See tíik 'hand'